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Seabury, Samuel – Searle, James

Seabury, Samuel

clergyman, author, was born June 9, 1801, in New London. He was an episcopal clergyman of New York city, prominent among High Churchmen, and professor in the General Theological seminary. He was the author of Continuity of the Church of England; Mary the Virgin; Historical Sketch of Augustine of Hippo; Supremacy of Conscience; American Slavery Justified; Theory and Use of the Calendar; and Discourses on the Holy Calendar. He died Oct. 10, 1872, in New York city.

Seabury, William Jones

clergyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 25, 1837, in New York city. He is an episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of the church of the Annunciation from 1868, and professor in the General seminary from 1873. He is the author of Suggestions in Aid of Devotion; and Introduction to the Study of Ecclesiastical Polity.

Seal, Roderick

lawyer, congressman, was born in Harrison county, Miss. He was a representative in the legislature; and in 1875 was elected a representative from Mississippi to the forty-fourth congress.

Sealsfield, Charles

author, was born March 3, 1793, in Moravia. He was the author of Tokiah, or the White Rose; The Viceroy and the Aristocrat; The Cabin Book, or Life in Texas; and Scenes and Adventures in Central America. He died May 26, 1864.

Seaman, Ezra Champion

comptroller, author, was born Oct. 14, 1805, in Chatham, N. Y. He was the comptroller of the treasury in 1849-53, and subsequently inspector of the Michigan State prisons. He was the author of Essays on the Progress of Nations; Commentaries on the Constitution, Laws, People, and History of the United States; The American System of Government; and Views of Nature. He died July 1, 1880, in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Seaman, Henry J

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847.

Seaman, Valentine

physician, author, was born April 2, 1770, in Hempstead, L. I. He was a once prominent physician of New York city, active in introducing the practice of vaccination. He was the author of Waters of Saratoga; Midwife's Monitor; and On Vaccination.

He died July 3, 1817, in New York city.

Searing, John A

agriculturist, congressman, was born May 14, 1814, in Queens county, N. Y. He was chosen a representative from New York to the thirty-fifth congress. SEARING, MRS. LAURA CATHERINE [REDDEN], author, poet, was born Feb. 9, 1840, in Somerset county, Md. She is a poet and journalist now living in California, but from 1868-76 on the staff of The New York Mail. She is the author of Sounds from Secret Chambers; Poems; Idylls of Battle; and Brother and Sister.

Searle, Arthur

astronomer, educator, author, was born Oct. 21, 1837, in England. He is a professor of astronomy at Harvard university from 1887, who has published Outlines of Astronomy.

Searle, George Mary

astronomer, educator, author, was born June 27, 1839, in England. He went to Harvard as assistant in the observatory in 1866, and remained there until 1868, when he joined the Paulists, and was ordained as a priest in that community in March, 1871, having been converted to the Roman catholic faith in 1862. He has had charge of the science teaching of the seminary that forms part of the home in New York.

Searle, James

merchant, congressman, was born about 1730 in New York city. He settled in Philadelphia about 1763. He signed the non-importation agreement of 1765; was one of the managers of the United States lottery from 1776 to 1778. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1778 to 1780.

He died Aug. 7, 1797, in Philadelphia, Pa.